Bechtoldt, M., Keller, C., Schunk, D., and Zipperle, I. (2026). Feeling guilty, anxious or still hopeful? The role of distinct emotions in climate change mitigation behavior. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 136. DOI Author/Publisher URL

PREREGISTRATION FOR REPLICATION OF TEACHING SELF REGULATION (2022):
Brinkman, S.A., B. Lam, S. Dawson, R. Marrone, D. Schunk, K. Winkel, H. Hermes, F. Gabriel , S. Fowler and D. Engelhardt (2025). Pragmatic clustered randomised control trial to evaluate a self-regulated learning intervention to be implemented in South Australian primary schools-study protocol. TRIALS, 26(1). DOI Author/Publisher URL

Hülsemann, M. J., A. Kaurin, B. Kollmann, A. Chmitorz, K. F. Ahrens, C. Schenk, M. M. Plichta, B. Lutz, U. Basten, C. J. Fiebach, R. Kalisch, K. Lieb, A. Reif, O. Tüscher, H. Hermes, D. Schunk, and M. Wessa (2025). Self-oriented affective empathy is associated with increased negative affect. Scientific Reports, 15(1). DOI Author/Publisher URL

Berger, E., E. Fehr, H. Hermes, D. Schunk, and Winkel, K. (2025). The Impact of Working-Memory Training on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills. Journal of Political Economy, 133(2), 492-521. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Klausmann, T., Köppel, M., Schunk, D., and Zipperle, I. (2024). Can machine learning solve the challenge of adaptive learning and the individualization of learning paths? A field experiment in an online learning platform. Arxiv-Preprint,  Author/Publisher URL

Krause, J. S., Brandt, G., Schmidt, U., and Schunk, D. (2023). Don’t sweat it: Ambient temperature does not affect social behavior and perception. Journal of Economic Psychology, 99. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Schunk, D., and Zipperle, I. (2023). Fairness and inequality acceptance in children and adolescents: A survey on behaviors in economic experiments. Journal of Economic Surveys, 37(5), 1715-1742. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Schunk, D., Berger, E. M., Hermes, H., Winkel, K., and Fehr, E. (2022). Teaching self-regulation. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(12), 1680-1690. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Berger, E., G. Koenig, H. Mueller, F. Schmidt, and Schunk, D. (2022). Self-regulation training and job search input: A natural field experiment within an active labor market program. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 98. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Cubillo, A., Hermes H., Berger, E., Winkel, K., Schunk, D., Fehr, E. and Hare, T. (2022). Intra-individual variability in task performance after cognitive training is associated with long-term outcomes in children. Developmental Science DOI Author/Publisher URL

Hermes, H., and Schunk, D. (2022). If you could read my mind-an experimental beauty-contest game with children. Experimental Economics, 25(1), 229-253. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Schunk, D., and Wagner, V. (2021). What determines the willingness to sanction violations of newly introduced social norms: Personality traits or economic preferences? evidence from the COVID-19 crisis. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 93. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Hermes, H., Huschens, M., Rothlauf, F., and Schunk, D. (2021). Motivating low-achievers-Relative performance feedback in primary schools. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 187, 45-59. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Hermes, H., F. Hett, M. Mechtel, F. Schmidt, D. Schunk, and Wagner, V. (2020). Do children cooperate conditionally? Adapting the strategy method for first-graders. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 179, 638-652. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Bruhin, A., Fehr, E., and Schunk, D. (2019). The Many Faces of Human Sociality – Uncovering the Distribution and Stability of Social Preferences. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17(4), 1025-1069. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Linner, R. K., Biroli, P., Kong, E., …. Schunk, D., …et al. (2019). Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics, 51(2), 245-+. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Houser, D., Schunk, D., Winter, J., and Xiao, E. (2018). Temptation and commitment in the laboratory. Games and Economic Behavior, 107, 329-344. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Kong, E., Auton, A., Fontanillas, P., …. Schunk, D., …et al. (2017). Examining the shared genetic architecture of risk tolerance and related behaviors. Behavior Genetics, 47(6), 692-693. Author/Publisher URL

Mieth, B., Kloft, M., … Schunk, D., … Navarro, A., and Mueller, K.R. (2016). Combining Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Machine Learning Increases the Statistical Power of Genome-wide Association Studies. Scientific Reports, 6. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Buzdugan, L., M. Kalisch, A. Navarro, D. Schunk, E. Fehr, and Buehlmann, P. (2016). Assessing statistical significance in multivariable genome wide association analysis. Bioinformatics, 32(13), 1990-2000. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Stange, J., Dickhaus, T., Navarro, A., Schunk, D. (2016). Multiplicity- and dependency-adjusted p-values for control of the family-wise error rate. Statistics & Probability Letters, 111, 32-40. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Bartling, B., Brandes, L., and Schunk, D. (2015). Expectations as Reference Points: Field Evidence from Professional Soccer. Management Science, 61(11), 2646-2661. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Bettinger, E., Nielsen, H. S., and Schunk, D. (2015). Special issue on Behavioral Economics of Education Introduction. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 115, 1-2. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Girard, Y., Hett, F., and Schunk, D. (2015). How individual characteristics shape the structure of social networks. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 115, 197-216. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Ruud, P. A., Schunk, D., and Winter, J. K. (2014). Uncertainty causes rounding: an experimental study. Experimental Economics, 17(3), 391-413. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Herz, H., Schunk, D., and Zehnder, C. (2014). How do judgmental overconfidence and overoptimism shape innovative activity? Games and Economic Behavior, 83, 1-23. Author/Publisher URL

Binswanger, J., Schunk, D., and Toepoel, V. (2013). Panel conditioning in difficult attitudinal questions. Public Opinion Quarterly, 77(3), 783-797. Author/Publisher URL

Koch, C., and Schunk, D. (2013). Limiting liability?: Risk and ambiguity attitudes under real losses. Schmalenbach Business Review, 65(1), 54-75.

Scheubel, B., Schunk, D., and Winter, J. (2013). Strategic responses: a survey experiment on opposition to pension reforms. The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115(2), 549-574.

Dickhaus, T., K. Straßburger, D. Schunk, A. Navarro, and Suarez, C. (2012). How to analyze many contingency tables simultaneously in genetic association studies. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, 11(4), 1-33.

Bartling, B., Fehr, E., Schunk, D. (2012). Health effects on children’s willingness to compete, Experimental Economics (58-70). DOI Author/Publisher URL

Binswanger, J., Schunk, D. (2012). What is an adequate standard of living during retirement?, Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 11(2), 203-222. Author/Publisher URL

Morishima, Y., Schunk, D., Bruhin, A., Ruff, C., and Fehr, E. (2012). Linking brain structure and activation in temporoparietal junction to explain the neurobiology of human altruism. Neuron, 75(1), 73-79. Author/Publisher URL

Salm, M., Schunk, D. (2012). The relationship between child health, development gaps, and parental education: evidence from German administrative data. Journal of the European Economic Association, 10(6), 1425-1449. Author/Publisher URL

Bartling, B., Fehr, E., Fischer, B., Kosse, F., Maréchal, M., Pfeiffer, F., Schupp, J., Spiess, K., Schunk, D., and Wagner, G. (2010). Determinanten kindlicher Geduld: Ergebnisse einer Experimentalstudie im Haushaltskontext. Journal of Contextual Economics, 130, 297-323.

Houser, D., Schunk, D., Winter, J. (2010). Distinguishing trust from risk: an anatomy of the investment game. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 74, 72-81. Author/Publisher URL

Bartling, B., Fehr, E., Maréchal, M. A., Schunk, D. (2009). Egalitarianism and competitiveness. American economic review, 99(2), 93-98. Author/Publisher URL

Houser, D., Schunk, D. (2009). Social environments with competitive pressure: Gender effects in the decisions of German schoolchildren. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30, 634-641.

Knoch, D., Schneider, F., Schunk, D., Hohmann, M., and Fehr, E. (2009). Disrupting the prefrontal cortex diminishes the human ability to build a good reputation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(49), 20895-20899.

Schunk, D. (2009). Behavioral heterogeneity in dynamic search behavior: theory and experimental evidence. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 33, 1719-1738.

Schunk, D. (2009). What determines household saving behavior?: An examination of saving motives and saving decisions. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 229(4), 467-491.

Wichardt, P., Schunk, D., Schmitz, P. (2009). Participation costs for responders can reduce rejection rates in ultimatum bargaining. Economics Letters, 103, 33-35.

Winter, J., Schunk, D. (2009). The relationship between risk attitudes and heuristics in search tasks : a laboratory experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 71, 347-360.

Börsch-Supan, A., Reil-Held, A., Schunk, D. (2008). Saving incentives, old-age provision and displacement effects: evidence from the recent German pension reform. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 7(03), 295-319.

Börsch-Supan, A., Coppola, M., Essig, L., Eymann, A., and Schunk, D. (2008). The German SAVE-study: design and results (186 pages). Mannheim: mea-Verlag

Salm, M., Schunk, D. (2008). Child health disparities, socioeconomic status, and school enrollment decisions: evidence from German elementary school entrance exams. In D. Houser and Keven McCabe (eds.), Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research, 20,  271-288. Amsterdam.: Elsevier.

Schunk, D. (2008). A Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm for multiple imputation in large surveys. Advances in Statistical Analysis, 92, 101-114. Author/Publisher URL

Houser, D., Schunk, D., and Xiao, E. (2007). Combining brain and behavioral data to improve econometric policy analysis. Analyse & Kritik, 29, 86-96.

Schunk, D. (2007). Sparen und Vermögensbildung in Deutschland. In D. u.a Engels (ed.), Weiterentwicklung der Reichtumsberichterstattung der Bundesregierung (53-68). DIW/BMAS. Köln

Schunk, D., and Betsch, C. (2006). Explaining heterogeneity in utility functions by individual differences in decision modes. Journal of Economic Psychology, 27(8), 386-401. Author/Publisher URL

Rothlauf, F., Schunk, D., and Pfeiffer, J. (2005). Classification of Human Decision Behavior: Finding Modular Decision Rules with Genetic Algorithms (H.-G. Beyer, ed.; 2021-2028). ACM Press. DOI

Schunk, D. (2005). Markets as complex adaptive systems: an introduction to evolutionary modelling approaches. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, 8, 408-413.

Deal, B., and Schunk, D. (2004). Spatial dynamic modeling and urban land use transformation: a simulation approach to assessing the costs of urban sprawl. Ecological Economics, 51(1/2), 79-95.

Schunk, D., and Hannon, B. (2004). Impacts of a carbon tax policy on Illinois grain farms: a dynamic simulation study. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 6(3), 221-247.

Bojer, T., Hammer, B., Schunk, D., and Toschanowitz, K. T. von. (2001). Relevance determination in Learning Vector Quantization. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks ‘2001. D-facto publications, 271-276. Author/Publisher URL